My guess is Amazon wants to rope people into their ecosystem, and they've recogn...

slig · on Nov 30, 2016

> The pricing is on par with these alternatives in the VPS space.

Linode offers the double of the RAM for the same price for $10, $20 and $40 VPSs.

Someone1234 · on Nov 30, 2016

A lot of people, myself included, don't seriously consider Linode anymore given their security problems (March 2012, 2013) and infrastructure problems (Dec-Jan 2015-16).

amq · on Nov 30, 2016

The biggest show stopper for me is the lack of block storage, while both DO and Vultr have it.

juliand · on Nov 30, 2016

They do, however, offer over 2x disk space in some of their plans. 80GB in LightSale and DO vs 192GB in Linode

dictum · on Nov 30, 2016

Digital Ocean's pricing has remained the same since 2013.

It'd be nice if they bumped the $20 plan to 3GB RAM (or go full Linode at 4GB)

amq · on Nov 30, 2016

I wish:

  $20
  4GB RAM
  2 CPUs

  $40
  8GB RAM
  4 CPUs

Some VPS providers already have similar offerings.